Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-01-25
BY COLLECTIONS ONLY.

BY COLLECTIONS ONLY.
The Wilmington Conference in the
first year of It's sep ,rate existence con
tributed for Missions $4,000. Last
year the collections amounted 10 SIT,
900.
Some of the more prominent charges
at present in the Wilmington Confer
ence were aided by the Missionary
Society in their early struggles.
At the Office of the Peninsula Metho-
dist there are being printed envelopes
called. THE youths age cards." ask
ing each member OF our Sunday
schools 10 give penny for each year
they are old. Could tho 1900 schol-
ars in our Conference have one of
these envelopes and respond To the
call, how easy it would be to raise the
apportiOnment.
X. G. Jones, of Mt. Salem, has pro-
cured supply of money barrels for
the Sunday schools of his church.
Hope they may be filled with nickel
and silver.
If every charge in the Conference
would use the Commi tee on Missions
appointed by the Quarterly Conference
how much more interest 1t would
awaken IN the minds Of the members
OF the committee themselves, and how
they would enthuse others. Let every
pastor Try 1t.
The outlook for mission work was
never more hopeful 1.-THE morning
cometb." The signs Of the coming is
full of cheer. Less than seventy years
ago the first missionaries landed on the
Sandwich Islands. Ssvagry, sensu-
atty, superstition and every form OF
vice was the practice of these people.
In less than fifty years it ceased to be u
heather nation and is now Christian
nation,
Rev. c. Jukes of Madagascar, at a
recent public meeting in England,
stated that GO years ago no one on the
Island could read; but now 800, 600
could read, and most of them possess
at least part of the bible.
In Japan, the difficulties in the way
OF evangelization are less than in
many countries. There is only one
language. They are largely an edu-
Gated and reading people. They have
not caste, that bane of India. The
three religious systems, Shintoism,
Buddhism and Confucianism. are none
of them strong. and are rapidly losing
their hold upon the people. The gov
eminent OF the country is tolerant, and
it is hoped may soon declare itself
christian.
A missionary who, after a careful
survey of the field, has said, japan in
all that pertains to real civilization
made as much progress in the last
thirty years as many other nations
ever did in three thousand years.
Fourteen years from the formation of
the first evangelical church in Japan,
there were sixteen thousand members.
The redemption of Japan is at hand.
While sceptical travellers are reviling
and ridiculing the work of missions
the natives of these lands are loud
voiced in testimony to the value OF
Christian missions.
On one of the South Pacific Islands
is the lonely grave of Missionary,
the Rev. John, Geddie. A marble
slab bears the following inscription:
When he came here,
There were no Christians
When he went away,
There were no heather.
Mrs. Sarah j. Rhes says that she
would like to look at Jesus through
the eyes OF Moses, David, Daniel, bet
ter still of Peter, Paul or John; but
best of all through those of converted
heather woman, who by His reyela-
ton of Himself to her soul, has lifted
her out of the horrible pit and miry
clay Of her hopelessness and hopeless
ut birth, untaught
in childhood, enslaved as a wife, ac-
cursed as widow, unmourned when
dead
over fifty years ago young man
landed alone upon an island in the
Pacific, the only object of civilization
to the cannabalism around him; he
grasped bible and wrote upon the
beach two words-Jehovah, Jesus
To-day, that island is the center and
source of high Christian life, aids in
advancing the Gospel, and sends
money to our Missionary Societies.